8 Male Models to Watch This Season

In time for the men’s wear shows, which kick off in London this weekend, T and the casting director Arianna Pradarelli round up the runway’s most intriguing new faces.

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Masao Parris

16, the Netherlands

Parris remembers his first runway turn, at Prada’s spring/summer 2017 show: “When I posted that on Instagram, my account exploded,” he says. “And when I came home I had a lot of media attention, as well.” He is a skilled dancer and has been practicing since age 3. (His Instagram provides proof.) “I always listen to music in the shower and I’m addicted to watching clips on YouTube,” he says.

Honza Stiborek

20, Czech Republic

Stiborek debuted on last month’s Gucci cruise runway in Florence, but he’s already an old pro at passing the time backstage by reading. “Right now, I take Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’ everywhere I go,” he says. “I love nature, as well, so whenever I have some free moments, I meet my friends and go for a hike.”

Mathieu Franke

21, the Netherlands

Franke, who walked in Prada’s and Louis Vuitton’s fall/winter 2017 shows, studies conflict, international relations and human rights — and tends bar on the side. He also loves “listening to old vinyl — Ray Charles, Otis Redding, you name it,” he says. “My boss in Amsterdam just got me two awesome records for my birthday, but I haven’t listened to them yet because of the traveling — Bo Diddley and David Bowie. I can’t wait.”

Moises Campelo

16, Spain

Born and raised in a small Spanish town near Barcelona, Campelo left the country for the first time last month — for his first photo shoot, an editorial in London. Campelo is excited to see who he meets backstage at the shows, but “the most important things to me,” he writes, “are my family, friends and girlfriend” — and boxing, his number-one hobby.

Zack Hunt

19, United States

The Michigander has hit the catwalk for Raf Simons and modeled for the much-talked-about Esprit by Opening Ceremony collection, but his “most memorable experience from the fashion world would be when Young Thug stopped me on the VFiles runway,” he says, referring to when the performer doubled as the Vfiles designers’ mentor and touched up Hunt’s lapel midshow.

Diacaria Kreminta

17, France

The Paris-based student, who debuted on the Kenzo fall/winter 2017 women’s wear runway, takes a scholarly approach to modeling. “Before a show, I watch the previous show of the brand,” Kreminta says. “I am just starting out. I take things as they come.”

Mikolaj Kajak

17, Poland

Kajak made his debut as a Prada fall/winter 2017 exclusive at the beginning of the year — and posed for the corresponding ad campaign — and then walked for Louis Vuitton, Kolor, Acne, Officine Générale and Bottega Veneta. But, off the runway, you won’t find him in luxe Italian threads. “I’m in military school,” he says, “and I wear a military uniform.”

Eli Epperson

19, United States

The Kentucky-born, Brooklyn-based Epperson started to model at the end of last year — and immediately caught Raf Simons’s eye. He walked for the designer’s eponymous men’s wear line in February and, shortly thereafter, as a Calvin Klein exclusive for Simons’s inaugural show. Epperson has also posed for T. “I’m a fan of comic books and I’ve played the drums since the age of 3,” he shares. “If I weren’t modeling, I’d be a musician or a full-time recording engineer — or producing music.”